Turning 30

i hope that when i turn 30, it's at least as interesting as this.

Damn...

it costs entirely too much to frame prints...

on the bright side though, i will soon have "The Face of Aphrodite" and "Reptiles" hanging in my apartment.

of course, this requires a fairly liberal interpretation of the word "soon", since there is a 3 week wait at the local framing shop...

consol^H^H^Hsomething else

just picked up mac os x for unix geeks, which seemed appropriate, since i use mac os x, and i am a unix geek.

so far, it looks pretty cool.

(ok, so i was originally going to write about something else, and i forgot to change the title to match this post. it's fixed now.)

Peter Jackson is God

the new extended edition of the fellowship of the ring movie is too cool for words.

they added everything i had hoped for, plus a few other things i hadn't even remembered from the book.

the only question i've got is "how am i going to find time to watch all the special features if i've still got all these babylon 5 DVD's to watch!"

Progress...

so i've been making progress on the subversion ruby bindings... the client bindings build and even seem to work, and the working copy stuff is coming along (although there have been annoying changes to the svn libs since these were last touched that make some of the behaviour difficult to recreate).

i'm questioning whether i should even be working on this, since it might be more practical to contribute to the SWIG bindings, but we've already got these native bindings here, and i like working with native ruby bindings a hell of a lot more than i like working with SWIG (it gives me a headache to read it), so i think i'll work on these for now.

Let's Take a Trip...

back in time...

it looks like the internet archive wayback machine has some of my old pages archived.

wow, that's a blast from the past...

Weird

so MT doesn't seem to be updating the comment counts on my index page...

i wonder if posting a new article will trigger it, since rebuilding the index didn't...

Argh!

so i was in borders today, looking for some book, and i got a call on my cell phone from a friend, and i proceeded to become one of those people i hate, the ones talking too loudly and for too long on a cell phone in a public place.

so thank you cara, for helping to complete my transition into that which i loathe...

Must Resist Urge To...

watch 22 consecutive hours of Babylon 5!

i got the last copy of season one from tower records, and it even turned out to be on sale!

Time and Motivation

or really, the lack of both....

i've got a ton of stuff i really should be working on, for a variety of different projects, but i never seem to have any free time, and when i do have time i don't seem to have motivation. i end up sitting around watching bad tv and surfing the web.

does anyone have any time/motivation they could lend me? it would really help...